Music in Vienna 1700, 1800, 1900
By: David Wyn Jones
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781783271078
Subjects: History and criticism; Music
Description: Focuses on the political and social role of music in Vienna, broadening our understanding of the city as a musical capital.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Telling tales of music in Vienna; title: 1700. Music at the imperial and royal court. Angelica, vincitrice di Alcina: an opera for the Habsburgs ; Three emperors : Leopold I, Joseph I and Karl VI ; Music in a fortress city ; Music and Habsburg identity; title: Catholicism, ritual, and ceremony. The regulation of the liturgy ; Leopold I and pietas austriaca ; Johann Joseph Fux : composer and theorist; title: Italian opera and the preservation of the Habsburg dynasty. Opera, representation and identity ; A coronation in Prague (1723) : political unity and musical conservatism; title: 1800. Court, aristocrats, and connoisseurs. Mozart's coronation opera, Haydn's Te Deum ; Music and the Habsburg dynasty, music and the Habsburg family ; The aristocracy as leaders of private and public taste in music ; Prince Nicolaus Esterházy and Prince Joseph Lobkowitz ; Women play and sing their part : a forgotten history; title: Demand, aspiration, and the ennobling of the spirit. Music in the market place ; Behind closed doors : piano, song and string quartet ; Music in Vienna in 1808 : the view of a patriot; title: Music, war, and peace. In tempore belli ; 1792-1799 The First Coalition to the Peace of Campo Formio ; 1799-1805 The Second Coalition to the Treaty of Lunéville ; 1805-1809 The Third Coalition to the Peace of Pressburg ; 1809-1813 The siege of Vienna to the Treaty of Schönbrunn ; 1813-1815 The Fourth Coalition to the Congress of Vienna ; A glorious moment, a new future, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde; title: 1900. Vienna, city of music. Documenting the musical world ; Institutions and venues in the First District ; Beyond the Ringstrasse; title: 'Seid umschlungen, Millionen.' Otto Nicolai concert, 18 February 1900 ; Beethoven and Wagner, Mozart and Haydn ; Memorialization and monumentalism ; Johann Strauss dedicates a waltz to Brahms; title: From Johann Strauss to Richard Strauss. The Waltz King turns to operetta ; Old Vienna, new Vienna ; Richard Strauss and the future operatic ideal.